August 28, 2026
Onshore, offshore, and the arithmetic nobody does
US developers cost two to four times an offshore rate per hour. Total project cost is a different calculation, and sometimes it favours offshore.…
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Notes on building and running software: what things cost, how we scope work, why we publish our prices, and the architecture decisions behind it.
August 26, 2026
Who owns your cloud account?
If you cannot log in to the account your software runs on, you do not really own your software. Four things to check today,…
August 23, 2026
Five questions before you inherit a codebase
Before you agree to own somebody else’s software, there are five things worth checking. Each one takes under an hour and any of them…
August 21, 2026
How to read a software quote
The number is the least informative part of a proposal. Here is the checklist we would want a buyer to bring to us —…
August 19, 2026
How we decide between a native app and a web app
Six tests that settle it. If none of them apply to your product, we will tell you to build a web app — and…
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